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texlive-bin — security advisory
Integer overflow in the predospecial function in dospecial.c in dvips in (1) TeX Live and (2) teTeX might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DVI file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
- Products
- texlive-bin
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2009-6
- CVEs
- CVE-2010-0739
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Integer overflow in the predospecial function in dospecial.c in dvips in (1) TeX Live and (2) teTeX might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DVI file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2010-0739
texlive-bin
Fixed versions: 2009-6
texlive-bin
Fixed versions: 2009-6
texlive-bin
Fixed versions: 2009-6
Complete source record
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